The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-01
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
sEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.

CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.
Macon Hotel Proprietor Starts c
Scandal Which Will Come Up in the
Courts-A Woman Makes Many Flu.
tile Attempts to Catch q Husband
Several Narrow Escapes from Being
Struck by Lightning.
Dirt will be broken for the new hotel at
Rome this morning.
Bronwood's building boom is not yet over.
Several new residences will be erected be-
lore fall
Gov. Gordon will attend the constitution
centennial at Philadelphia if he can possibly
get away.
All counted there are in Brentwood eleven
women who hold in sacred remembrance
The names of departed husbands. Widowers
are in the minority, noticeable.
Martin Kelly, a somewhat notorious col
bred desperate, was shot and killed on Mon
day morning last bv John Spell, Jr., white,
about seven miles from Quitman.
Mr.. S. W. d. Caraway, of Griffin, opened
bureau drawer Saturday and found two,
loot snake coiled up in one corner, which
was dispatched without any harm.
A post Office in Mitchell county has been
named Dewitt, in honor of a young attache
Of the Townsville post oflice-and occa-
sional route agent-Dewitt Gordon.
ID. Fl. Peden returned TO Griffin Saturday
from Indian Springs He says the spring
was covered two feet over with water when
he left, and possibly four by the time he
got there. Most of the visitors had gone.
The Superior Court for Spalding county
will convene to-day. The criminal docket
is very light, but the civil docket is long
one, and it will probably require two
weeks session to transact the business now
On hand.
Mrs. Kinsey, who was implicated with
the negro Edwards in tho murder of Echols
near Cornelia, two months ago, and who
disappeared soon after the killing, was cap
tured by Marshal Hanie, near Westminster,
s. c., and has been brought back TO Haber
sham county and lodged In Jail.
Thirty men havo signed a call for a meet
ing to be held in the court house at Valdosta
next Wednesday, to consider the question
Of making a county display at the Piedmont
Exposition. If these thirty. with what
others would drop in, viii take hold of the
matter in earnest, display, and most
creditable one, can be made
A terrific storm passed near Abel on last
Monday night, accompanied with the most
vivid lightning and deafening thunder peals,
A new dwelling which Joe Parish had in
process of erection was blown down. The
storm came from the northwest, and was a
half mile wide, upset fencing and torn and
uprooted pines marked its pathway.
At Louisville Sunday evening the thunder
and lightning ronred and flashed considera-
bly,. At A. C. Keith s in the Eighty-fourth
district large tree near his dwelling was
splintered, and the family badly frightened,
but none of them hurt Lightning struck
and fired the crib of Thomas j. Aldred near
Monkey. 1t was put out before doing much
damage.
Hon. Howard z. w. Palmer, Assistant
United States Attorney at Atlanta, has ten
dered his resignation to take effect Aug. T.
He does ID in order that he may devote his
whole time to the active practice of law
His outside practice has increased SO rapidly
OF late that he has deemed it best to give up
his position in order that he may give his
undivided attention TO that practice.
Up to July 20 there had been shipped
from Townsville IL, 636 crates of LeConte
pears. The express company handled H.
600, and the others went by freight. The
average net price realized has been about
81 per crate. This would put $4,000 in
circulation The shipments made from
Boston and Cairo, and others yet TO he heard
from viii probably go to q, 200 crates.
Ii the catelpillars do not eat up the cot
ton crop, Valdosta will have great
trade the coming fall and winter. Mer-
chants are putting in heavy stocks of goods,
and several new firms will open up. There
have been several demands for business
houses lately that cannot be supplied
Within three years, if this thing keeps on,
Ashley street will have as many business
houses on it as Patterson street. There will
be six or seven over there this fall.
Anna Powell, of Fort Valley, went TO
Powersville last Saturday TO visit relatives
On Monday morning she went visiting and
left the child in care of some little negro
children. The child endeavored TO follow
its mother, and wandered off through the
fields and was a mile from the house when
a very hard rain storm came up, and the
child was drowned by the heavy torrents of
water, and was washed off into the woods.
II was about thirty hours before the child
was found. The little one was IL months
old
At Chipley, Thursday, large number of
farmers assembled at the Chipley High
School building and united themselves into
an organization known as The Farmers
Alliance The alliance was worked up bv
a Texan of Red River county. He says the
great State of Texas has SOC, 900 members
and doing a grand work. The farmers in
alliance propose to buy goods at 10 per cent.
on cost for cash and IL per cent. on time,
and to accept no member that is not per-
fectly reliable. The organization is secret
one
The Covington correspondent of the News
under date of July 20, writes as follows:
We have had the heaviest rainfall here in the
last forty-eight hours ever remembered TO
have fallen here by the Oldest inhabitants
The rain gauge shows l0l4 inches up to $3.50
O'Clock this evening, and il is still raining.
We are apprehensive that many of the
bridges in this lNewton) county will be
washed away. Crop prospects were never
more fiattering than now. This heavy
rainfall will doubtless damage all crops ON
the low lands.
The Augusta Factory Office, which was
sold to w. II. Howard two weeks ago for
$4,000, was sold by him Friday 10 Gen. c.
A. Evans for the Augusta Real Estate and
Improvement Company for $4,000 The
real estate market in Augusta hos been CON
stantly on the rise for the past six months,
and this is not tho only case where large
profits have been made by purchasers in a
few days. For instance, one of the David
Ron lots on upper Greene street was pur-
chased for 81, 700 and few days after was
sold for 81, 900.
AT Macon Thursday J. b. Williams, of
the Commercial Hotel, swore out warrant
for the arrest of e. s. Beaseley, a well
known young man of the city. The charge
is pretty heavy. Some time ago a widow,
who claims to be from neighboring
town, became a guest of the house. and
Thursday night Williams claims that Bease-